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Wifi problem
August 12th, 2019
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For a while, our household has been plauged with wi-fi issues. We
don't have Ethernet run around the house (I'm hopefully going to
run it soon), so almost all of our devices are connected using
wi-fi (excluding a few crappy powerline adapters).
For a long time, our router/AP (access point) was a really crappy
TP-Link router. It only supported 802.11n and was super bad at
managing our many devices, and needed to be rebooted every few
days. There was no 5GHz option.
Recently, my grandfather got NBN (Australia's new connection
standard, National Broadband Network), to replace ADSL2+ (which we
still have). This left him with a spare router which we inherited.
We set that up to replace our current router. It has 802.11ac and
had both a 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. It works way better and
dosen't need to be rebooted every few days.
I'd been having a weird issue while rsyncing to and from my pi for
backups. Rather than the 100Mbit I *should* be getting from my pi,
I was only getting 40Mbit. I finally figured out it was due to the
`-z` compression option on rsync. The pi wasn't fast enough to
compress it on the fly!
Hopefully soon I'll be writing a post about ethernet!
